Scooby-Doo
Caracters: Scrappy-Doo

Scrappy-Doo character biography

A December 1980 episode of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo ("Scrappy's
Birthday") depicts Scrappy-Doo's birth. Born at St. Bernard's
Hospital to Scooby-Doo's sister Ruby-Doo, Scrappy idolizes his
uncle Scooby and would often assist Scooby and his friends in
solving mysteries. With a highly energetic and brave personality,
despite his small size, Scrappy was the opposite of his uncle;
Scrappy would usually insist on trying to directly fight the
various monsters Scooby and his associates encountered. Related
to this, one of Scrappy's catchphrases was, "Lemme at 'em!
I'll splat 'em!" Another of Scrappy-Doo's catchphrases is, "Ta
nanana ta daaa! (imitating a bugle playing "Charge!")
Puppy power!" The character was developed by writer Mark
Evanier, who has acknowledged basing his personality largely
on that of the Looney Tunes character Henery Hawk.

Scrappy-Doo's Voices

Scrappy-Doo's History and criticism

Scrappy-Doo was added to the cast of Scooby-Doo to save the
show's ratings, which by 1979 had begun to sink to the
point of cancellation threats from ABC. After his addition
to the show proved to be a ratings success, Hanna-Barbera
restructured the show around Scrappy in 1980. The original
format of four teenagers and their dog(s) solving supernatural
mysteries for a half-hour was eschewed for simpler, more
comedic adventures which involved real supernatural villains
(the villains in previous Scooby episodes were almost always
regular humans in disguise).

Scrappy remained an integral part of the Scooby-Doo franchise,
on both TV and in Scooby related licensed products and merchandising,
through the end of the 1980s. He was also briefly the star
of his own seven minute shorts — the Scrappy and Yabba
Doo segments of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. Teamed with his
uncle Yabba-Doo and Deputy Dusty, he helped maintain law and
order in a small town in the American west.

In later years, the presence of Scrappy-Doo has often been
criticized as having had a negative impact on the various Scooby-Doo
series of the 1980s, though Scrappy does have his fans as well.
Others credit Scooby-Doo's gradual decline during that period
to other factors, such as the format changes. Scrappy-Doo has
become the symbol of a character, usually overexuberant or
cute in an irritating way, that critics say is gratuitously
added to a series (see Cousin Oliver).

Due to the general perception of the character by audiences,
Scrappy-Doo has not appeared in any Scooby-related spinoffs
since the made-for-television movie Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant
Werewolf in 1988, save for the first live-action Scooby-Doo
theatrical film — where Scrappy played a decidedly negative
role as the main villain, wanting revenge on Mystery Inc.,
for abandoning and banning him years ago. His plan is foiled
and he and his minions are arrested in the end.

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